This is an analysis of the poem 'That' Which They Had Wished To Ignore that begins with:
Since they are not into 'that'...
They choose to know nothing about it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001 110110010 110111000010 1110111 1111111001 101011 1101110101 111010100 1010111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 339
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they is repeated.
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- summary of 'That' Which They Had Wished To Ignore;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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